《Promise》You only have one chance for a first impression
Advertisement
In the middle of an unknown forest, 5 people were lying unconscious on the ground, knowing nothing about what faith had planned for them.
Slowly, all five started to walk up from their slumber. There were 3 male and two females among them all seemingly in their 20s.
Awoken, all of them shared the same look of confusion on their face with some varying emotions such as scared and angry.
After a few moments had passed and they started to try to communicate with each other. The first to show his voice was a man with short stylish blond hair, he was tall around 6ft'2 (188cm), with a fit body type, a handsome face and blue eyes. He got that intellectual aura to boost to it too, not hard to imagine him not to be the leader of every group he was in. He turn to the two girls and asked:
"Hey, do you speak English? Do you guys know where we are, why are we here?".
The two girl, one with long shiny blonde hair as if the sun always shine her and with gorgeous green eyes, a Western face, with pearly white skin and full red lips and around 5ft'7 (170cm) all and all one word that can summarize her was beautiful, she looked like the kind of women who would take the breath of every man away just by walking past them and stole their heart just by a smile. The other was an Asian beauty, also about 5ft'7 (170cm) a slim and attractive body type with silver hair that looked as if it was the moon light itself, ruby red eyes that shine through the darkest night and thin light pink lips. She looked as if she walked out straight from a fairy tail world.
"We don't know anything..." The blonde hair girl answered " We just woke up and found ourselves laying on this dirty ground.".
"What the hell is going on here!?" the silver-haired girl spoke.
Realizing that none of them know what is happening here, they start to share everything they know to each other.
The tall blonde man spoke first:
"My name is Allan Kennedy, I am a Sociology bachelor and currently studying to get my PHD (Doctor of Philosophy) in America, the last thing I can remember was driving home from a meeting with my friend"
Advertisement
The blonde hair girl :
"I am Maria Evergreen, I am a 4th year medical student at University of Oxford England. I was studying for a test before I fell asleep, I think."
The Silver hair girl:
"My name is Kagayaku Tsuki, but you can call me Luna, I am a bachelor of Marketing and as far as I can remember I was still celebrating with my family for getting my first interview tomorrow."
The three got acquainted then turned their eyes to the other guys.
They were both Asian. One of them was around 5ft'9 (175cm) with short brown hair (nicely cut and style) and brown eyes. He had this charming and friendly look and with light skin and a smile on his face. He looked as though a very normal guy, with a normal build and a nice face and that was it, nothing seemingly special.
The other one though was very different. He was around 5ft 12 (182cm) with black eyes and relatively long black hair (unlike the other looking messy and kind of bad) covering some of his eyesight. His skin tone was also different from the rest, he was tan. He got this sleazy and uncomfortable aura from the look of him with his messy hair and sharp looking eyes as if they could see right through you and a bonus serious looking face. All and all, you could say that by the look of things he was the least good looking among the five, he looked like your typical who you can say weeaboo.
The two had already been seen talking to each other in a different language and looked as if they knew each other. Allan, Maria and Luna looked at each other and their eyes showed exactly what they were thinking: " somehow I don't think we can trust those two, especially the dark hair one."
Although they didn't feel they could trust the other guys, the three still decided to come over as they might knew something valuable, and with the last word from Allan " don't worry if something does happen there we can just take them down, they don't look that tough to me" the two girls follow him.
Advertisement
Allan, Maria and Luna walked up to the two guys, still talking in a foreign language. Allen as usual was the first to communicate:
" HI THERE! CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ME."
He spoke slowly and loudly just like a tourist from a different country trying to communicate with some locals :) The one in dark black hair answer in perfect English :
" YES WE CAN AND WHY THE HELL ARE YOU YELLING AT US, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?"
He replied, speaking exactly like how Allan just did, it almost seemed like he was mocking Allan. One could almost tell there was a bit of a smirk on his face just for a moment, while the other guy already had a smile on his face since the three started trying to communicate with them.
An awkward moment followed after that before the brown hair guys started to break the ice and properly introduce themselves.
" You guys are probably wondering who we are right? Well my name is Lâm but you can just call me Liam l, don't worry, I know you guys probably pronounce it right, I am a Bachelor of logistics in Vietnam, and this is my friend".
" You can call me Kyle, I am a Bachelor of economics and finances". The dark-haired guy replied with a deep and cold voice.
After sharing some info to each other, they all pretty much caught up on who the other said they were and what they knew. However, even after the ' meet and greet' Allan, Maria and Luna all came to a feeling in their mind
" Somehow I don't think I can fully trust these two, especially the one with black hair".
His look and attitude when they were trying to communicate with him was really odd, giving this sense of being a shady person. On top of that, Allan can be pretty sure that he caught him eye balling or you could say straight up scanning the bodies of the two girls next to him. Feeling uncomfortable, Allan came up with a plan to temporarily split from the two guys. He suggested splitting into groups and searching the surrounding for clues and meeting up in ten minutes or so. And just like in Scooby-Doo, the handsome blonde guy got to go with the two girls and the other two went by themselves.
When the coast was cleared, the three started to verbally comment on what they thought back then.
" I don't know about you but I got a bad feeling about Kyle, there is something about him that seems kind of odd" said Maria.
" Not to mention the creepy pervy eyes he was looking at us," Luna added.
" And it's not like he was physically changed to behave and look like that either, he said it himself"Luna continued.
It was confirmed by the group that they were slightly changed physically, except for Kyle not needing glasses to see, Luna and Maria's eyes colour changed, they were the same physically and mentally.
"Hey come on now, don't judge the book by its cover, maybe he was just stressed from the obviously strange circumstances we are in" Allan calmly replied.
" Say what you want to say but the guy looks shady as hell, not to mention those two are the only two that knew each other beforehand." Maria said. " I am not trying to be that girl but, I was taught not to trust some shady looking stranger."
" It's true that, I too have an odd feeling toward Kyle. But we should keep an open mind, however, that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep an eye on him," Allan replied.
The three nodded in agreement, but in their hearts, they knew that somehow Kyle was going to bring them a lot of trouble very soon. And how close they were to predict the future.
The three got back to the spot where they first awakened and when the other two came back as well, a glowing sphere appeared out of nowhere flying above their head and said.
" Hello players, welcome to the game"
Advertisement
- In Serial6 Chapters
My goal in Life
No goal, No motivation... Life is full of depression. Eagerness seems like a fleeting cloud... I think I was born in a wrong era.
8 150 - In Serial6 Chapters
The Curio Shoppe
Kellan Klein is an ordinary college student with an average, if traumatic and painful past. Everyone grows up grappling with depression and anxiety that seem to be genetic in a house with parents that, while loving, fight all the time and have weird ideas about what kids should and shouldn't do, right? Everyone deals with bullying, racism, judgement on their romantic inclinations and their family's economic status and just general shittiness, right? All of Kellan's friends sure did, and for all of them, entertaiment media were a welcome escape from their painful, dreary lives. After all, who wouldn't want to sail the seas with Monkey D. Luffy and the Strawhats, or help Meng Hao con increasingly powerful and influential people, or join Cecil Harvey and his friends on their weird journey to save the world, or make friends with Peter Parker while pretending to not know he was everyone's favorite wall-crawling superhero? Kellan certainly wanted to, and while he pursued college to seek out a career he saw himself enjoying, something felt inexplicably empty about his life. So when a decidely sinister force kidnaps him and the prettiest man he's ever seen saves his life and offers him his wildest dreams, Kellan becomes the shopkeeper of a mysterious, dimension hopping shop, complete with a system that helps him acquire items. abilities, materials, and other cool shit to stock it with, as well as some other neat perks. Will Kellan become a boring overpowered MC, like the kind from web fiction that he reads to sate his boredom? Will he keep his generally kind, sweet nature despite the shit he's gone through and will go through, or will he inexplicably become a scary, violent, irrational arrogant douchebag? Will he use his newfound abilities to explore the multiverse and improve the lives of himself and others, or will he become his own antithesis, a purely mercantile jerk obsessed with money and profit, with no concern for anything that doesn't help or hurt his business? Find out in The Curio Shoppe! Author's note: Please suggest possible setting he could visit in the comments. I'll gather ones i'm familiar with, and at the end of every arc, a poll will be held to decide the next location he visits. There will be polls for other purposes, and I might not always go with the poll winner if I feel one of the other options is more fun to read/write about. I will not use the settings of other RRL writers without their permission.Do not ask for that, unless the author in question gives permission. Most settings he visits will be slightly AU in some way or another, but please remind me if I drift too far from canon unintentionally or characterize a character wrongly. This work will eventually fit all tags I selected once he visits universes suited to those tags, so don't ask when or where a given tag is coming. I do not own the cover art, it belongs to Nicholas Belanger Thiel, and I will stop using it if he asks me to. Kellan doesn't look like the old man on the cover, though once he acquires a disguise-type ability he may occasionally use that appearance. The tapir, however, will be a thing, as despite looking like a failed attempt at an elephant, tapirs are cool and this dragon finds them to be kinda cute. The art, along with more of Nicholas's pieces, can be found at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/51bXz
8 196 - In Serial55 Chapters
How Zantheus Fell into the Sky
A knight climbs a mountain in search of enlightenment and when he reaches its peak he is thrown into the sky. He wakes up miles away from the mountain and must journey back to it in order to discover what happened to him. On the way he will meet a mute orphan boy, an escaped slave woman and an eccentric, enigmatic scribe. Join them as they travel over plains, through forests, down rivers and back to the mountain, confronting vagrants, arguing with philosophers and fighting bandits on the way, all in order to discover just HOW ZANTHEUS FELL INTO THE SKY. Now complete! Get it on Amazon Review it on Goodreads
8 194 - In Serial9 Chapters
Surface Tension
A mermaid, Ina, becomes intrigued by the curious actions of a human. In her growing fondness for him, Ina begins to question what she had been taught about human behavior and motives.
8 182 - In Serial14 Chapters
After being reincarnated as the strongest hero I decided to open a tavern and wait until I have to save the world!
I myself have been a fan of Light Novels for the past year as I've been reading more and more and personally I like Isekai. And so! I thought, why not try my hand at writing my own with most of tropes and cliches! Will it be trashy or great? Well, that's for you to decide! Welcome to "After being reincarnated as the strongest hero I decided to open a tavern and wait until I have to save the world!" In this story we will follow our main hero, Dantes who after being killed gets reincarnated, but with some mishaps during the process, things don't go as planned and after being sent to this new world, he decides to his use his past professions and opens a tavern with the help of a few others! OP hero MC? checkBadass Harem? CheckBBEG? CheckEcchi? Check But that is just a taste! If you are interested, then please give it a read.
8 106 - In Serial98 Chapters
Ancient God (Ancient Love Poetry)
[COMPLETED]When the ordinary human encounters difficulties and separation in his life, he can nevertheless resort to praying to the Gods and to Buddha - but what if one is a deity?She lost the memories she had of the three hundred years before the Disaster of Chaos occurred, causing her to forget the love which she had buried deep in her heart.But she will never forget how he quietly stayed by her side for sixty thousand years; she will never forget the thousands of years he spent in the Northern Sea, frozen in time; she will never forget how he stood upright on the Green Dragon Stage, enduring the pain of having his bones crushed and body burnt; she will never forget how he chose to shatter his spirit into a million pieces and turned into ash, just so she could live.Today, in the desolation of the Nine Provinces and the loneliness of the Three Realms, a solitary figure remains standing on the Gan Kun Stage.In this lifetime, she is able to stand upright in front of all the Immortals and Gods; she is able to stand upright in front of the innumerable people and spirits living in the Nine Provinces and Eight Wilderness; she is able to stand upright in front of her deceased Father God Qing Tian; but in front of him, she is unable to stand upright and declare that she is free of regrets.She owes him more than one hundred and thirty thousand years; she is indebted to him for more than three lifetimes.This time, she would be the one waiting for him to return. Even if millions of years pass, she would never, ever leave.Original Text: 上古Author: Xing Ling (星零)Chapters: 96
8 270

